It may seem like a little thing to people who don’t watch or care about soccer, but gridiron lines are never a welcome site for fans at a soccer game.
For three years, La Salle senior midfielder Johnny Ciarlante has played on a turf field with American football lines on it painted in 2006 for a team that was disbanded by the university a year later.
But that all changed this summer with the installation of a new SPRINTURF field at a stadium originally opened in 1936.
“It’s a true soccer field,” Ciarlante said of the pitch at McCarthy Stadium, which the team shares with women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse.